Graphics Nvidia 50series and AMD 9000 series Thread

Palit's 5090 is now £1880 at both Scan & Overclockers.
That's below the FE's MSRP!!

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/pali...-pci-express-graphics-card-gra-pal-04175.html

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/pal...ray-tracing-graphics-card-dlss-4-21760-core-2

 

Nice, pretty happy with my Palit 5080, quiet seems well built, good cooling so clocks well, the cooler is so massive mind you, check dimensions before you buy

Notice the back plate on this one vents past the DDR5 unlike my one which vents over the DDR5.

 

god damn, thye are dropping? im still hunting for a FE, i wish i nerver placed an order FE WB before i actually got one

 

Ah, sad times

 

I’m sitting here with a 5080 and WB about to do the install, with that little hardware devil on my shoulder talking me into a 5090 buy….. must resist, it's easier now I have a 14k vet bill but still......in my head it is like

 

I've been there. The intrusive thoughts won. Fast forward and all I have now is regret and a 500 quid hole in my pocket from the loss of selling it on.

 

lol just came home was tempted to buy that palit from scan but it has gone up £120

 

I have tried two 5 series cards and about to try a third. So far quite disappointed. The 5080 FE had a constant electrical clicking noise and the internal riser cable played havoc. So it has been sold on.

So going with a midrange Zotac 5070 as the prices have come down. Not ideal but significantly better than the trusty bench 3070. I have size limitations in the Terra.

It seems like Nvidia are "doing an Intel". Intel got sloppy CPU-wise: they were so far ahead they couldn't be bothered to innovate. Then AMD got their process shrink and IPC right and Intel had to scramble to catch up.

We need this to happen in the GPU sector.

 

Oh no disaster! Electric clicking noise sounds like a nightmare. Hope the 5070 goes well. Is it a Zotac Solid model? They are priced keenly.

Also... is it just me or are 5080 FEs in stock all of a sudden at MSRP right now..

 

think scan got somat like 500ish in stock this week according to rumors, there were some 5090s earlier this week but i think bots nabbed em

anyone know of a water block thats instock for the palit 5090s?

 

Here ya go https://shop.alphacool.com/en/shop/...orce-rtx-5090-gamerock-phantom-with-backplate

 

there are import charges from alpha cool making it pricey, you can get it here

Your Search results for the term: 5090 gamerock

 

I suspect the double riser configuration was the fault.

Yes Zotac Solid OC from OCUK £509. Since the 5070s were reviewed prices are now below MSRP and at £500 the 5070 is a different proposition imo. 2 slot 3090~ performance.

EDIT

So far so good. The Zotac 5070 has no coil whine in games sitting at around 3090 performance. The fans are surprisingly quiet under 100% load and temps likewise.

I hear it is good for 12-15% overclocking. So I'll see if I can aim for 10% 24/7

 

Another day, another "hotfix" GPU driver from Nvidia.
The new one is 576.66 (WARNING! - Direct download linky)

What it does:-
This update resolves unexpected crashes during gameplay in Dune: Awakening [5273568] and EA Sports FC 25 [5251937].
On RTX 50 series GPUs, Dragon's Dogma 2 no longer suffers from distracting shadow flicker [5252205], and web browser video playback is now free from brief red/green flash corruption [5241341].
Additionally, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been stabilized to eliminate in-game crashes [5283401], ensuring a smoother and more reliable experience.

 

Apparently some newer Nvidia GPUs are not expecting the PCIe SMBus pins to be connected and will fail to boot when present: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-com...s-to-fix-rtx-50-series-problem-on-z690-boards. And the boards being reported as having issues come from Nvidia’s old friend, EVGA.

The tone of the article reports this as an EVGA problem; I am biased in this regard, but I’m not so sure about that.

If the two pins in question are designated for SMBus in the PCIe spec, then how is it EVGA’s fault if they implement the spec as directed, but GPU manufacturers and other motherboard vendors don’t bother with it?

The pinouts I’ve been able to find for PCIe slots do indeed show pin 5 as “SMCLK” and pin 6 as “SMDAT”, meaning “SMBus clock” and “SMBus data”, and that applies to x1, x4, x8, and x16 slots. SMBus is apparently a subset of i2c, a fairly standardised 2-pin machine-to-machine communication protocol. These two points certainly make it seem like this is written down somewhere in some Weighty Official Document Outlining Wot Everyone Must Do.

So… how is this EVGA’s fault…? I mean… other than the very public falling out between EVGA and Nvidia, which, of course, means that EVGA is automatically the Bad Guy because how and why could Nvidia ever be in the wrong in any scenario…?

 

I see some of the MSRP 9070 XT cards are back in stock (Scan) at £80+ over MSRP. Mine was £569 and is now £653. Still better value than competing Nvidia cards but that's a bitter pil.

 

If EVGA still existed as anything other than an empty husk then there would be a theoretical possibility they could somehow overwrite the compatibility issue with a bios update.

But lets face it, even in that hypothetical world made up just to deflect blame from Nvidia it would only be a band aid on a symptom when the actual root cause is that "consumer pcie" is a proprietary "standard" that only provides limited compatibility with the actual pcie standard while being falsely advertised as actual pcie.

 

Nvidia have had so many problems with missing ROPs, melty cables, messy drivers, odd vram choices and so on that i'd not be confident buying one at the moment.

 

Kingpin from EVGA has said he's working on a card but it's not ready yet can't wait to see what he has.